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1995 in Luxembourg

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Incumbents

  • Grand Duke – Henri
  • Prime Minister – Jacques Santer (to 20 January) Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Deputy Prime Minister – Jacques Poos
  • President of the Chamber of Deputies – Erna Hennicot-Schoepges
    Jean Spautz
  • President of the Council of State – Paul Beghin
  • Mayor of Luxembourg City – Lydie Polfer
  • January – March

  • 1 January – Luxembourg City becomes European City of Culture for 1995.
  • 20 January – Jacques Santer resigns his position as Prime Minister. He take up his new post as President of the European Commission three days later. Jean-Claude Juncker takes Santer's place.
  • 26 January – Jean-Claude Juncker forms a new government, with Jacques Poos as his deputy.
  • 22 February – At football, Luxembourg beats Malta 1-0, recording Luxembourg's first victory in international football since 1980.
  • 26 March – The Schengen Agreement comes into force.
  • April – June

  • 25 May – CS Grevenmacher and Jeunesse Esch draw in the final of the Luxembourg Cup, 1-1 after extra time, forcing the game to go to a replay.
  • 7 June – The national football team shocks the Czech Republic by winning 1-0 in the qualifying round of the 1996 European Championship: a competition in which the Czechs would reach the final.
  • 11 June – CS Grevenmacher win the Luxembourg Cup, beating Jeunesse Esch 3-2 in the replay.
  • 11 June – Switzerland's Rolf Järmann wins the 1995 Tour de Luxembourg.
  • 21 June - The A3 motorway extension from Croix de Gasperich to Bonnevoie, in Luxembourg City, opens.
  • July – The A13 motorway extension from Biff to Rodange, bypassing Pétange, opens.
  • July – September

  • 31 July – A law is passed giving the go-ahead to the construction of the Liaison avec le Sarre, extending the A13 to the German border.
  • 6 September – The national football team again beats Malta 1-0. This would be the last Luxembourgian international victory until 2007.
  • 11 September - Raid on warehouse results in the largest bust of an illegal LSD producing factory in Europe to date.
  • October – December

  • 13 October – The National Literature Centre opens in Mersch.
  • 19 October – SES launches its fifth satellite, Astra 1E.
  • Deaths

  • 18 January – Roger Gilson, cyclist
  • 2 May – Albert Bousser, politician
  • References

    1995 in Luxembourg Wikipedia


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